/lit/ - Literature

As I watched a video on Youtube about a talking raven I noticed a theme in the comments, people saying "nevermore" or "make the raven say nevermore".

Curious as to the origin of the apparent meme I searched the word and became aware of a poem by a man I had a vague awareness of as a writer of spooky things.

I decided to watch a reading of the poem associated with the word mentioned and instantly loved it, however after numerous watchings and reading the poem I wondered what kinds of poems people were making these days and looked up videos of people reading their poetry.

I noticed a distinct drop in quality from, admittedly, the only poem I've read up to that point, and was quite disappointed. It didn't help when I stumbled on "slam poetry".

So are there any good modern poets or are we in the same situation as we are with modern art?